Kurdish National Council

The Kurdish National Council (KNC) is a Syrian Kurdish political party that was founded in 2011. The KNC initially had more support than the socialist Democratic Union Party of Syria (PYD), and it had a strong support base among Kurdish refugees. However, the PYD would later become more popular in Syrian Kurdistan, and the alleged authoritarian and nationalist policies of the KNC led to many political parties leaving it. By 2017, the party had only 2/43 Democratic Council seats.